I have been thinking about the question from my last post these while, and I have come up with some answers. What are we supposed to do towards the end of a year? I guess its all about looking back on the year and reflecting on stuff, what you did well and what you didnt, what are the things that you are suppose to hold close...Then, its also about making some new year resolutions- what you what to achieve for the next year. Lastly, its also about the COUNTDOWN! Actually, I dont know why people are so particular about countdowns. Yes, I have participated in countdowns, but no, I dont know why people are so excited. Yes, its the last few seconds of the year, but again, its still just another ten seconds or so... (please correct me if im wrong...Im the kind of person who can sleep through the countdown, haha)

Although I sound as if I know what to write for my reflections, I dont really know, but I shall try. This year has been really hectic, though I shouldnt be saying that now, haha, its the holidays...for these 2 days. Last 2 days. This year is one of the busiest years of my life, work, work and other activities and events. However, it definitely isnt one of the 'sad' years, because of all my friends who have been with me these times. I have made some close friends through this 2 years in my class 1E'06 2E'07, and enjoyed the times spent with them, whether it be playing, revising, doing projects or just hanging out. Shayne, WenJian, Bryan, Jonathan, DiaoZheng, Clive and ZhenPng, who is currently studying in Melbourne, but will be remembered by our class forever. These friends have been really supportive of me, no matter whether it is in class, helping me with work or with any of my dumb requests, or just lending a listening ear when I have something to say, talking to me when Im bored, comforting me when Im feeling down and standing up for me when people so-called 'take advantage' of me. Really appreciate it, and sorry if I missed out anyone. Also of course, the rest of 2E, whom I have spent two years with. We havent been the best class, not even maybe average, and 15th in the inter-class MOV drama competition, but you will be my precious friends forever, even if I dont talk to some of you usually, its not because I dont like you, it might be because I dont know what I can say to you, or I dont think you like talking to me haha. Also, Im sorry if I have offended anyone through the course of this year, I apologise for anything I've done wrong. I thank all those that have helped me in my work, both teachers and friends, and allowed me to get a decent GPA, haha, I also hope that I have put in enough effort this year...oh and next year too! Anyway, I know I am going to miss 2E, but life has to go on, we all have our new classes to go to, so all the best,work hard and bring glory to our school, haha! Also, to my new(and forunately some old, haha) classmates in 3T, hope we work well together and lets make ours the best class ever! Haha. Of course, I also want to thank my friends from 601, for bringing me so much fun and joy with all the outings and gatherings this year, whether its an eating trip or pool trip, I enjoyed all of it. And so, again I am sorry if I cant make it to gatherings sometimes. Now to things that we should hold close (I learnt this from an anime), I feel that it is family and friends and generally the people around you. I want to treasure the companionship of my friends and family, cos a relative of mine and one of my mum's friend just passed away recently, and although I wasnt affected greatly, my parents were and I felt their sorrow. So do treasure yours too! Another thing I decided is to always hold my dreams close, even though I dont know what my dream is, I am going to go for my interests and persue it!

Resolutions for the new year:
1.Make lots of new friends
2.Do my best to keep up with friends, old and new
3.Maintain this blog, lol
4.Excel at school(as in academically, in CCA, etc.)(or at the very least, maintain)
5.And as I said, do something about my dreams!
6.Get some new stuff
7.ALWAYS stay happy and remain the same me
Thats all I can think of now...im sure there will be more though

Countdown is...later and I will be most probably be at my cousin's house celebrating with them while playing some games, hope to have much fun!

School's starting in two days, and when we get back to school, we will be back there as seniors, haha.(though without long pants, sad) It has been surprisingly fast, people say this every time, but it just feels like this every single time, a moment ago, I was just entering RI as a sec one, and now Im going to be a sec three. I dont even feel like a sec three, Im still the same me, the me at three, the me at p1, the me at sec 1, I just feel this way, but I know that it is true that time must have passed and I have been growing. After this long and highly possibly last post (or crap) of 2007, I want to wish every one a very happy and fulfilling new year!!

The last few days of the year are approaching, and I dont really know what I am supposed to do... What do people do? Okay, this morning I went to watch a movie, Elizabeth The Golden Age, with Jim and my dad. I have been wanting to watch it since I saw the trailer some time ago in the cinema, but only have the chance to watch it now, just before school reopens. It was quite a nice show, seeing how Elizabeth dealt with all kinds of problems and the things that happened in the court. The actress playing Queen Elizabeth was really good, like she showed her emotions (or the unable to) really well. I admit that I know almost nothing that happened in the movie, but I still understood it at least a little, haha. And now Im doing some reading on my own based on this topic. Okay, some parts of the show are a bit...maybe unsuitable? for someone my age, but generally its still okay. My favourite parts are those that show big scenes or beautiful scenery, cos those are very well designed or pictured. WJ should actually be the one watching it, lol, cos shes taking history RA.

Next went to have lunch and then went shopping. Bought some clothes and stuff, cos everything was like on sale. Its only six now, and Im really tired. Realise that I have to improve on my endurance if I want to survive another year at school... I dunno why I feel so...bored and sad and stuff...maybe its because Im aware that the year is coming to an end and the start of the new year means new beginnings and also a new school year! I shouldnt try to sound so enthusiatic cos im not...for now, I KNOW that I will feel better somehow... Anyway, Im going to go to my grandmother's house now, tomorrow most likely too, but the other side haha. So cant make it on 601's last class gathering, sad. I already seem like some antisocial person, not going to class gatherings, and finding lots of excuses not to go. But both Jim and I are not, please believe us when we say that we really tried to 'make ourselves free', anyway sorry! Meanwhile I shall think of what to do at the end of the year. Btw, I will be going over to my cousins house for 2008 countdown, while playing like crazy with them and their friends lol.

Hey everyone! Today woke up had breakfast and stuff, like any usual Sunday (lol?) and also went to my grandmother's house to have lunch, really like Sundays... Didnt do anything much today...only ate stuff that my grandmother cooked cos we have already ate our family Christmas dinner yesterday at Bistro Delifrance, just realised that I forgot to blog about yesterday. Okay, we went to eat, and got served by a malay student- part-time waitress (not being racist, you will understand later). At first I didnt know what to order, cos all seemed the same (lol) I guess its because a person like me seldom eat these stuff. But I just ordered a seafood pasta while Jim had a pasta with a big piece of chicken, mum had...some turkey or duck, forgot which but it was smoked and dad got a roasted beef or something... My parents had trouble understanding some parts of the promotion and stuff, so the waitress started to speak in chinese,O_O, and the best part was, her chinese was reaally fluent!! Though she knows less words than me, I think her pronounciation is much better than mine! I was surprised at just stared at her... We assumed she learnt chinese at school, but no... when my mother asked, she said she learnt her chinese from watching tv shows!! O_O another big shock. Woa, I think shes really pro at learning and her service was also really good! I would have nominated her for GEMS if she was full-time. Even the assistant manager wasnt as good, she just literally threw the christmas gifts on to our table and said Merry Christmas. Maybe Im too sensitive, but she should have placed it nicely haha, nevermind, not thats shes bad, but her staff is better. So we had a happy time dining, talking through stuff and debating on a really funny topic, lol! (it was a maths topic)

That was yesterday, today was quite boring...nevermind Im going to appreciated it as much as I can, before school reopens. To me, Christmas has always meant more than eating with families and confessing and getting presents, it also signifies the ending of a year and the start of a new one. Maybe I will talk more about this next time, until then!

Two days ago, on Saturday, was Dong Zhi, or the Winter Solstice Festival (Tang Yuan Day as some call it, lol). Our family celebrated like most other families, gather together (although we do this every week), and eat Tangyuan, which symbolises unity and prosperity for the family. After eating dinner, went to a room with some other young people and started playing a game where you are not supposed to say certain words within a period of time. Sounds easy, huh? I thought so too, until we started to talk more and more... then I just said the word, and then had to run a few rounds as forfeit. So, after a while, we started playing bridge, a game which I remember is really fun but unfortunately havent touched recently. So we quickly got through the rules and everything then started playing. Had lots of fun. Then as we were about to go, I realised that I havent eaten the tangyuans yet lol! So went to eat and had a talk with some of my aunts, haha, before going home.

Sunday was boring, woke up becos I heard some noises outside, and found out that it was 10.45am!!! My family has never ever woken up so late before, and this was the WHOLE family! Which meant that half of our day was gone, just gone. Actually I wanted to go to the science cetre, out of random curiosity, not that I have never gone before, but I want to see if the science centre is any different from before, and whether I can really understand the science part now. Last time I went there only becos the exhibitions are fun, lol, absolutely NO learning anything!! O_O But for some reason didnt go in the end, my parents just sort of forgot? They agreed at first, but just didnt go in the end, without saying a word about it, wierd?

Today is officially Christmas Eve, and in the morning Jim and I had a mini training of our own, then came back, had lunch, parents came home and here I am sitting here, blogging. It feels like a Sunday, I know its a Monday, but NO MONDAY BLUES! Thats the good thing about PH or EPH on Mondays. Christmas tomorrow!! I know this is crapping, but see ya next time!

Okay, I am feeling sooo happy now, for a few reasons. Let me write in chronological order: Yesterday afternoon- Went to the book fair with Jim and my mother. So we didnt really do anything but look for books and my favourite multimedia section(haha), but I had fun looking at what they had. lol. Eventually I bought 'The Kite Runner' for Darren and then there were none. Lol I mean and the book 'And Then There Were None' by Agatha Christie. I really love her stories, cos they are just so intriguing. Twists here and there...and a wonderful story altogether! And then I also bought the anime movie 'Tales from Earthsea', the latest production from Studio Ghibli (i think), I havent had a chance to watch it yet, but will soon, for a reason we all know...school is reopening soon! It looks interesting and is only NC16 for violence, so should still be okay...haha. The last one was Fullmetal Alchemist DVD volume 2, cos they were giving away a free poster for each one, and we bought volume 1 long ago without volume two, so we decided to buy it! (even though we already finished watching it, thats y i was a bit reluctant at first) We chose a Tsubasa poster because that was one of those better ones that were left. That's about all we bought there, had a fun time walking around but legs are tired lol.



Yesterday night- finished my homework like promised! only thing left is to read a book, which is easy... hope its of decent quality though haha

Today morning- Went out with 601 ppl again! Darren WanJing ShuMin WeiXuan Delwyn YeeShing Jim Me. We had so much fun, eating, travelling and playing pool. First we met at Vivocity, and went to Starbucks to drink coffee, but Jim and I didnt cos we seldom drank coffee so it would be a waste to drink it when we couldnt appreciate it, haha.(turned out to be good, cos WJ and Darren said they were too full after that and kept saying they got scammed, haha. $7.90! I deeply apologise for reminding them of this...) Then we met the others at the station and went to eat at Macs, but we all ate very little, lol. After that we made our way to E-zone, but on the way there, ShuMin's 'lost' present made WX run back to Macs, only to find that it was with Delwyn all along. Bad Delwyn. Sorry WX. Then we went up to E-zone to find that we couldnt play pool there, and so we went to a place near dhoby ghaut to play. Happened to see my senior from school there, Victor, HanSheng and WenJie! But we still went to our own table and played. This was my absolute first time playing, so I just followed what ppl were doing and learnt. Then some of them said that I played before, but I couldnt have, cos if I did, I wouldnt be missing the hits! As in not even hitting the white ball! Started by playing with Darren, and I because of beginner's luck, Jim and I won. While we were playing, it was really funny too to see the other table messing up- hitting the lamps with the sticks/laughing really loud/screaming while running around trying to 'dot' each other/getting stares from the uncle. Then my seniors said they were bored and asked me to go over and so I did. It was quite scary, cos its the first time you were playing and someone who has played for at least a year asks you over to play 1on1. I was thinking: Huh? for me to get thrashed? But I still went over cos hes my senior, haha. Surprisingly I won. Both rounds/matches/games. (dunno how you call it,haha) Then found out that WJ Darren and WX has already went to eat, so we followed them to another fastfood restaurant, KFC, this time more. So after that, we went to The star factory to play some games lol. I changed my notes for coins but didnt play in the end lol. Dunno why we have the tendency to head to the arcade but come out in...15minutes? haha. It was really fun seeing them play all the games, especially with that atmosphere in the arcade lol. WX played the drum game till he perspired like...after a long long run, haha, not exagerating.(the second time today, haha, guess going out with us is good exercise) After that, we parted ways sadly, looking forward to the next time we meet again...(like a story haha) And really thank Darren and WJ for their presents! Thank you so much! LOVED THEM! Im going to end here because some people want to read now, haha.

Okay today we decided to rest a bit more, so woke up later than usual (and also because we knew that WJ is not going for work today), and just did some stuff in the morning. Then had an early lunch and went to the library again. It was another day of work, and I for some reason the library was more crowded and I saw quite a lot of new volunteers today. The new people were talking loudly in the library O_O, asking where is where and chatting, but I guess its okay since they r new and they really needed help. Of course there were also some familiar faces, who did their job much better. (actually exeedingly good cos a group of them were spending hours straightening...about 6 shelves?) I really admit the shelves were of great quality after that, but they spent at least 1.5hours there, was shocked when I found them still there after I shelved many more trolleys of books and returned. Anyway, today was boring cos nobody came to talk to me to ask me something, haha. Guess I have started to like these things, cos they make me feel that I have made a difference to someone, and not just books...books and books. I also overheard an interesting conversation between one of the librarians and a student, talking about movies. the librarian said that she really like movies and films that she has to watch at least 2 per day. O_O Then they started talking about the latest movies like Fred Claus and The Golden Compass and so on. (This was actually the part where started I believed her) Haha still think its hillarious that someone like her watches so many movies and dramas every day.(no offense) Oh ya, and I want to thank the lady that sold me pancakes for giving me extras, lol. I was really hungry then, during the 15min break. Rushed to find nice food lol, maybe she saw that I looked frail, haha. Though eventually I only ate that pancake that she gave at home...

Its past 12 midnight now, and I had just done about half of the last part of my work, which is 'due' tomorrow, i mean today, so jiayou to myself haha. Darren and WX coming back tomorrow! From Japan and Korea(?) respectively. Looking forward to the class gathering on Thursday before school reopens and we get squashed by all our work(=() and meet new teachers, new classmates and friends(=)). But for tomorrow, I will be having CCA in the morning and going out with my family in the afternoon. Just two more weeks before IT.

This post was originally meant to be short so that I can sleep early.

Okay, I have been wanting to post about facebook since quite some time ago, but I was lazy, and people have been writing about it, so no point, haha. Please dont say I lag, cos...I hope im not. Anyway, ever since a month ago, I have been going on to facebook very often, some times hooked on it for hours and hours...O_O... But fortunately, I am over facebook now (as in not 'NO FACEBOOK' but "NOT addicted to facebook'). Its actually quite fun la, considering all the people who are on it, so you can catch up with old friends and family, with the seemingly endless amounts of applications it has. Though after some time you can get sick of it and not find anything interesting in it anymore. (Think im nearing that stage) Thats why I went to find many 'what ___ are you?' quizzes to do to kill time and now I dont know who I am anymore. (not the emo way, haha) Sorry to those who misunderstood, lol.

Now I shall randomly skip to another topic, which is based on what I said earlier, about killing time. I realise that I havent got much more time left, so no more killing time just for killing time. Barely two weeks left of the holidays, and I havent finished my holiday work yet. I am truly sorry to those I have pestered with my complaining about homework, and to those who have given me endless encouragement to FINISH up my work. I am truly sorry that I am too lazy to do them. But I shall work on them quickly and finish them before the 20th. No, I must, for my holidays to be made full use of and not to disappoint those that have pushed me. And so, here I thank everyone that have been supporting me all these while, and I should probably start on my work now, so till then!

By the way, I have to write this no matter what: I feel so sorry for not going for the Track and Field farewell lunch today. I promise to be more active and supportive next time! Still regretted it and seek forgiveness... Best of luck to all my sec 4 seniors who are leaving, I thank all of you for your contributions and commitments to Track and Field all these years, but special thanks go to my throws seniors Martin, Xiaowen, Liyuan and Joel for their guidance and encouragement. Also of course to Captain and Vice-Captain 2007 for bringing the team to victory! GO ON RAFFLES ATHLETICS! T_T

Today I went to the library in the morning again to do CIP with Jim and WJ, cos Darren is away, I imagine having lots of fun in Japan. It was again, pretty much the same, except that I felt better today, being able to help some people find the books they wanted to read. I really like the feeling of being able to help people, its like...you feel that you are useful and not wasting your life, or something like that. First was a young boy who couldnt find a geronimo stilton book or something (forgot what its called, but its close), so I helped him search on the system and went over to a self to look for it. But suddenly remembered that I didnt look for the type of book it was, like whether it fell under J, JP or JS. So I went back to search, thenr realised that the boy was following me around, so I told him to wait for me there. I couldnt bear to see him following a lost person like me looking for a book. This time I looked more carefully and found the area, but there werent any of those books...so sad. He looked disappointed so I explained that he shouldn come to the same area next time to search for it and went off. Then Jim came over and told me that someone was looking for enid blyton books, but he couldnt find them. So I searched again, and realised Jim was ALSO looking for the book in the wrong area and so I went to the correct area to take all the enid blyton book to the lady. (apparently there werent a lot there then) I know this is boring, but the same boy from earlier came back to me and asked me to help him find a non-fiction book. This time it was easier, and I think he managed to find it in the end. Yay. All this searching for books sounds lame and boring too, but trust me, compared to hours of shelving books, this is much much better cos more of a challenge and wakes you up from your semi-consciousness. Haha. Today WJ felt a bit bored so we left slightly earlier, but still did quite a number of hours.

Finished watching both the studio ghibli films that we bought. They were both very simple, but emotional too, thats what studio ghibli films are well-known for. Its hard to describe cos they are just so special. Future Classics! Only people who have actually watched studio ghibli films will be able to understand what I mean, haha. Still remembered when I watched my first studio ghibli film when I was about 10, not very early actually. I think it was grave of the fireflies or spirited away...forgot which came first...sorry! But they are really good, so if you have the chance, go watch one! Actually had more to write but just went to eat some cream puffs (haha) so dont feel like writing more anymore, lol.

Well, as I have mentioned s few times before here and many times on tags...I am bored because everyday seems to be the same- doing the same things + which are not in any way 'beneficial' = No life. Except for maybe the cip part, which I really enjoyed doing and felt thats its meaningful, but hasnt got much time to do...

Yesterday, Darren, Jim and I went to the library again to do cip, cos Darren had to clock a few more hours, haha. But Jim and I went there for pure service (lol, ok a bit of cip hours) and to accompany him. It was pretty much the same things, but WJ didnt go this time because she is on holiday overseas. Darren will be going overseas soon, for about two weeks...sad. So, we did the usual things at the library, lots of shelving and a little shelf reading and straightening. (thats what they call those stuff) However, this time I was approached by two interesting people who looked like undergraduates. (separately) The first told me that he couldnt find a book and asked me for help. He gave me the call no. of the book, which I could pretty much read by then, but I could find it on the shelf so went into the sorting room for help, but it wasnt there too. So I sadly returned to the man and told him that I couldnt find it, and asked him to proceed to the counter if he needed further assistance. lol, but it was quite depressing cos its my first time... Then the second person came. This time it was a lady, asking me where she could find books on astrology. I was quite taken aback by the topic she was looking for, but tried to help her find by searching on the system to check for the call no. of these kind of books, but again couldnt find it due to my inexperience. After she left, I cooled down and went to search again by myself, and realised that it would have been much easier to help her find what she wanted if I had asked for the more specific aspect of astrology she was looking for, like atrology of baby names...or love and marriage? So I knew I was being dumb and useless and looked like an idiot librarian in front of her. Hopefully I can prove to be more helpful in the future...rather than wasting all their time. So sorry to those whose time I have wasted. So those two people were the most memorable this time at the library.

Anyway, recently I have been watching the same animes I have mentioned before, but got tired of waiting, so started watching mai-otome, which is the sequel to an anime I have watched before, mai-hime. I think that this might be a girls anime, but for an anime lover like me, it doesnt really matter as long as I can appreciate it. This anime is about Arika, whose mother was once an otome, which is sort of a fighter/protecter in this anime, and she also dreams to become one like her mother. She is the main character of the story, and becomes a student in the otome school at the start of the series. The series is about her progress in her school, Garderobe Academy, and what being an otome is about. I havent finished watching the series yet, but will continue to, haha. Hopefully before the holidays end. Oh, and we also bought two Studio Ghibli movies today and previewed a little (do you call 30 mins little?) of both of them. They are 'Whisper of the Heart' and 'The Cat Returns', adding on to the few Studio Ghibli productions I have watched before and really liked. Shall talk more about this when I finish watching those two. Enjoy your holidays everyone!

Havent been doing anything much these few days...(seemed like weeks?) Really quite sian, but dont feel like doing homework, haha. Rarely feel this way. Wondering why... But nevermind, shall think of something to write about. Okay...I tore a bit of my PE shorts on Friday, because I just finished working on the leg press machine in the gym during CCA, when my shorts caught some part of the machine and a small part of it tore when I was getting up too quickly, lol!

Yesterday, our whole family went to eat lunch cooked by my grandmother, it was really nice food! Haha, had hokkien mee. For some unknown reason, we went off to our uncle's house after that. The adults had some talk, while us non-adults (two cousins, Jim and I) played with the computer, psp and ps2. (in this order) We played games like Zatchbell (haha) and One Piece. Had lots of fun playing with them. Until about 9.30pm when we had to go home. These two cousins of mine have been participating in many many modelling (as in model things, not being models) competitions and exhibitions, and have won quite a lot of them. Haha, so happy to hear something that they enjoy doing so much and are so good at. Hope they keep up with it and continue to excel!

A few days ago, I just found out from some of my friends that I am going to be in the same class as some of them next year! I was so happy to find out about it, was like yay. haha. I had difficulty trying to find out my classmates for next year, only today did I hear about the list on in the atrium. Shall go and take a look, haha. Anyway,I am REALLY happy to find some of my friends in my class. It is fortunate to have friends in a new class, unlike the first 'true' time I have experienced it in sec 1, when I had absolutely no one to even talk to on day 1. It still scares me how the whole school feels cold and uncaring on the first day...loneliness... But now, because of all my friends, the school feels like a much nicer place to be in. It has been a really amazing experience in this school for the past two years...especially all my friends. Theres still the teachers, the school, the work, the stress, the exams, the CCAs, the activities, the scoldings, lol. But I think that friends are still the most important.(whether it is primary school or secondary school) Without them, I would never have survived these two years, haha, so I really want to thank all of you so very much for being there. Sorry, for the move from talking about next year's classmates to friends, haha. Im random)

There are classmates and ex-classmates, colleagues and ex-colleagues, friends but never ex-friends.